The 7 Habits of Highly Miserable People

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Strong rec foxhill · 2018-06 · on “Habits of Highly Miserable People”

having been, for want of a better term, ‘highly miserable’ in the past, the entirety of this article comes across as insidiously toxic and detrimental to the mental well-being of those who are suffering. there is a.. loosely similar CGP Grey video, which approaches the matter in a much more rational context [1] for anyone suffering, i emplore you to not read this and watch this instead; [1] - [this video]

Recommends bitsoda · 2017-06 · on “Training Your Brain to Be (and Stay) Happy”

CGP Grey recently posted a great video titled "7 Ways to Maximize Misery". It's worth checking out. [this video]

Recommends rajangdavis · 2017-06 · on “Ask HN: Do you plan your next day ahead?”

I have most recently been trying to plan out at least 6 months ahead. How I am approaching this was inspired by some life events and some videos I had seen on Youtube. I really liked this video by Scott Hanselmann ( [LINK] ) about scaling yourself and I liked this video that came out recently ( [this video] ) about behaviours that maximize your misery. What I took from these two videos is that goals are important and in order to reach these goals, you need to find a way to keep yourself accountable without creating goals that are vague or unattainable. I have just started writing a bunch of to-do lists on Google Keep and then I try to group various tasks and assign 3 per day. The goal is to focus

Recommends hencq · 2017-09 · on “The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever”

There are a lot. I thought this one was really funny [0]. This one I found very interesting [1]. Somewhat different, is the Hello Internet [2] podcast, which is by Grey and Brady Haran who you might know from the Numberphile youtube channel [3]. It's basically the 2 of them chatting about random stuff, but I find it very entertaining. [0] [this video] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]

Recommends cjen · 2018-06 · on “Habits of Highly Miserable People”

CGP Grey made a great video [0] pretty similar to this, it has a bunch of points about physical things (changing sleep schedule, staying indoors) and keeps the same sarcastic tone. [0] [this video]

Recommends jgrowl · 2018-06 · on “Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?”

Sometimes it's more illustrative to look at what you can do to ensure you'll be depressed. 7 Ways to Maximize Misery: [this video]

Recommends Jetroid · 2020-06 · on “Ask HN: How are you holding up?”

I'm doing well. Ironically I think I'm doing better now than I would have been if the pandemic didn't happen; but still not in a particularly good position. Optimistic, though! If you're struggling, it's probably because the systems that you put in place at the start of the pandemic have broken down. (Kinda like how we eventually forget/give up on New Years Resolutions...) I'd recommend these[1] two[2] videos from CGP Grey to help. The first talks about the kind of things that you might be doing that are making you miserable, and the second about specific ways in which we can cope with the pandemic (and specifically a lockdown, if you are still in one). Brief notes: Avoid doing any of these

Recommends cosmojg · 2021-01 · on “Setting goals for 2021 – A brief guide about personal goal setting”

CGP Grey has an excellent video on this exact kind of goal setting: [this video] And another on New Year's resolutions more generally: [LINK]